Doron Salomon

Israeli musician and conductor, born February 6 1950 in Israel.

He began his music studies playing piano, horn and classical guitar.

After completing his studies at the "Urban D" high school in Tel Aviv, he did his military service in the Central Command Band.

America Israel Cultural Foundation 1974. His studies there (1974 - 1978) included conducting, composition and classical guitar. He also attended the master classes of Franco Ferrara in Siena and Leonard Bernstein in Jerusalem. He later won conducting awards named after Adrian Bolt and Theodore Shtir. He also received first prize in a conducting competition sponsored by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in 1979 and the "Golden Lyre" and the Emile Weirmus prize (first prize) in the prestigious competition for young conductors in Besançon (France).

His father, , born in Berlin, a student of Paul Rambat, was the principal hornist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and arrived in the land of Israel in 1936 along with many of the founders of the orchestra.